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I'm getting tons of inquiries from last night on Coast to Coast AM wanting to know more. Many of these folks have never even heard of Bitcoin!

So, I've been compiling a letter to send back to then. What did I leave out?

Stan

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Thanks for asking about BitShares.
There’s a lot to learn.

The short answer to how to get started is to visit BillionHeroCampaign.com where we are currently building a game-based course on how to dip your toe in the water gently. You can sign up there for our mailing list and watch as we develop the game and training week by week.

This is what you need to learn to do. The materials below will give you the details.

Download a Bitcoin wallet and create a Bitcoin receiving address.

Download a BitShares wallet and create a BitShares account and name it.

Buy bitcoins from somewhere and send them to your bitcoin wallet’s receiving address.

Use your bitcoins to buy BitShares and send them to your BitShares wallet account name

Keep track of your passwords - no one can reset them for you and you will lose your money if you lose them!

A very useful exchange in London is Bitstamp.net. You'll need to register your ID to get an account there but then you can wire money to/from your account and use it to trade Bitcoin and a few other coins. Send you bitcoins back to your bitcoin wallet or directly through blocktrades.us converting to BitShares and depositing them in your BitShares wallet account.

A very simple specific way doesn't even need you to have a bitcoin wallet:

Go to Coinbase and buy some Bitcoin (BTC)

Go to BitShares.org and create a BitShares Wallet

Send Bitcoin from Coinbase to Blocktrades.us to get BitShares (BTS) sent to your BitShares Wallet.

This last step is built into the BitShares wallet. Just pick the BlockTrades transfer service (or any others) from the drop-down menu below and fill in the form to move your BTC from coinbase while converting them to BTS in one swell foop!

The Video
By far the best resource for new people is our “TED Talk” in front of a live studio audience in Hollywood.
Everyone loves it for some reason. There is no better way to know all about us in one sitting.

This post is a HUGE wealth for the "Noobies", this is GREAT! Thanks for sharing it and, BTW, congratulations on a fantastic 2 hour session earlier, that is already causing ripples... Upvoted, resteemed and shared!

Shared on the Twitter!

For many of us the whole crypto world ia a massive learning curve, even if we have heard of bitcoin.

Thanks for posting the steps. VERY helpful for others to follow.

I'm part way along the learning curve.
I set up the wallet, but I don't want to sign with an exchange (privacy reasons ATM). But I would like to test my wallet.
I think I have it sorted and the "receive tab in "Electrum" shows

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Is this what I need to give to other people, so they can send me coins?

No need to test, it's been tested for years now. ;) Go to a coffee shop, ask if anyone would be willing to sell you $5 in btc for cash. Set a low fee and wait a day for it to show up. ;) Bitcoin is really bad for transferring low amounts of value these days.

This is awesome. Mass adoption is only a matter of time. Crypto is going to explode in 2018. Check out the CanYa.io launch. It's an Australian start-up that is going to go viral. They are doing everything right, including rewarding hodlers, with a hodlers' club...

Thanks for the great post, Stan. Very interesting information that I'm sure everyone will enjoy reading. I remain skeptical about many ICO crypto currencies, but you certainly have my attention on bitshares as something we should all study in more detail.

@ghostknight@wander.woman@lukejmorrison This is a great post to show anyone that is interested in steemit. Don't forget to use all the different "condensers" Thanks for this post! @sam this caught my eye as I have called in a spoken to george a couple of times and I would love to get him on here! Thanks for catching my attention. Love George and Coast to Coast. EvE

Highly rEsteemed!
Incredible work @stan. Thank you for posting.
Definitely will go back to listen to the interview now.
You might be responsible for sending BTC past 9K recently.
Perhaps something similar is in store for BTS now.